HOCKEY

The 12th game of the 2017 WDIHC matched Canada vs. Finland. Canada won 4 to 1. Players of the game were #1 Pauli Kitula for Finland and #18 Chris Garbacz from Canada. (Box Score)

USA 32 Kazakhstan 0

Game #11 of the 2017 WDIHC had Kazakhstan against the United States. United States won 32-0. Players of the game were #22 Scott Humes from the United States and #17 Aidyn Adamov from Kazakhstan. (Box Score)

Game ten of the 2017 WDIHC saw Finland vs. the United States. The United States won 6 to 2. Players of the game were #18 Christer Fagerstrom from Finland and #9 Peter Gintoli from the United States. (Box Score)

Canada 19 Czech Republic 0

The 9th game of the 2017 WDIHC saw Canada vs. the Czech Republic. Canada won 19-0. Players of the game were #12 Sean Kyte from Canada and #10 Tomas Hartinger from the Czech Republic. (Box Score)

Game 8 of the 2017 World Deaf Ice Hockey Championships featured the United States vs. Canada. Canada won 5-2. Players of the game were #9 Peter Gintoli from the United States and #11 Jason Veilleux from Canada. (Box Score)

Kazakhstan 11 Czech Republic 5

Kazakhstan and the Czech Republic contested the 7th game of the 2017 WDIHC. Kazakhstan won 11-5. Players of the game were #7 Alexey Plotnikov from Kazakhstan and #19 Jiri Filipi from the Czech Republic. (Box Score)

The third game of the day saw Finland playing the Czech Republic. This was the second game of the tournament for both teams. Finland won 12-1. Players of the game were #19 JIri Filipi from the Czech Republic and #24 Janne Yrjola from Finland. (Box Score)

Canada 27 Kazakhstan 0

Day two of the men's round robin started with Kazakhstan playing Canada. Canada won 27 - 0. Players of the game were #94 Maxim Palatkin from Kazakhstan and #15 Matt Sheffield from Canada. (Box Score)

Canada 6 USA 3 (Women)

The Canadian and Unites States women matched up again to start the second day of the 2017 WDIHC. Canada won 6-3. Players of the game were #1 Libby Breaker from the United States and #11 Sophie Gagnon from Canada. (Box Score)

Saturday, April 22, 2017

USA 17 Czech Republic 0

The second game of the day featured the United States against the Czech Republic. The Czech Republic is participating for the first time in the World Deaf Ice Hockey Championships. United States won 17 to 0. Players of the game were #25 Robert Ruef from the United States and #23 Michael Stary from the Czech Republic. (Box Score)

Finland 17 Kazakhstan 0

The opening game of the 3rd World Deaf Ice Hockey Championships featured Finland against Kazakhstan. Finland won 17-0. Players of the game were #7 Marko Liimatainen from Finland and #73 Sergey Fursov from Kazakhstan. (Box Score)

Canada 6 USA 4 (Women)

This year for the first time in the World Deaf Ice Hockey Championships women's teams competed. The inaugural event featured teams from Canada and the United States. Canada defeated the United States 6 to 4 in this historic event. Players of the game were # 5 Brittany Mallach from Canada and #12 McKinley Karpa from the United States. (Box Score)

On April 19, the American Hearing Impaired Hockey Association kicked off the World Deaf Ice Hockey Championships at the Northtowns Center in Amherst, New York; a suburb of the city of Buffalo.

Hosted by the United States, teams from Kazakhstan, Czech Republic, Finland, and Canada will compete in this 10-day tournament. This year, for the first time in the tournament’s history, women will compete in an exhibition series as Canada and the US will go head-to-head on April 22 and 23.

When he was 6 years old, Fort Wayne's Grant Isenbarger attended his first American Hearing Impaired Hockey Association camp and knew what his dream would be. He's been blessed enough to wear "USA" on his jersey two times before and the third time starts tonight in Amherst, N.Y., at the third World Deaf Ice Hockey Championships.

played in the WDIHC in Finland in 2013 and won a bronze medal at the Winter Deaflympics in Russia in 2015.